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Privacy and Productivity Duke It Out: Many PC users guess that they spend from 5 percent to - if they are brutally honest - even 20 percent of their time online engaged in personal pursuits.
But statistics do not bear out these guestimates. In fact, between 30 and 40 percent of workplace Internet use is unrelated to business, says IDC research.
What is the harm, one may ask? The answer, by some accounts, is stark: U.S. corporations are suffering US$85 billion each year in lost productivity due to inappropriate online activity, says Internet management software vendor Websense.